Who needs Sesame Street when you can learn the same things from micro-controllers? Ok, I still need Sesame Street because life would be bleak without Big Bird. But I’m refreshing my elementary education through the use of my Arduino. I found a thermistor in a box of parts. It looked like it came from an [...]

Took my younger brothers to show them Arch Reactor last night.  It was my attempt to get them interested in electronics other than video games.  I really didn’t expect them to be to interested in anything but the MAME cabinet that was there.  I figured it was still worth a shot and at the very [...]

A couple of members at Arch Reactor teach an Arduino class. Of course the Arduino is a fantastic little micro-controller that everybody loves, but we aren’t here to talk about that today. I’ve already been through the class the first time around, but this time they are focusing on a super-tiny variation called the Ardweeny. [...]

I’m aware how much I’ve been slacking when it comes to keeping up with new posts. I keep working on too many different projects at once and none of them get done. I thought if I got a quick little mod or two done, then maybe I can get back on track. Maybe some tunes [...]

Drive mappings. A frequent problem where I work. When a users machine fails completely, IT is pretty quick to replace it. But the user says they are still incapable of doing their job because he or she has lost all the file-shares they had mapped as drives. And these drive mappings were not part of [...]